System for smart pantry management using consumption data
AssigneePerfect Corp.
InventorsMichael Wayne Wallace, Daniel Short
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Abstract
A smart pantry system is able to build a data store of the food items that a user or household has on hand, and maintain the data store in light of corroborated point of consumption (POC) data. The data store may also include information about those food items, such as names of food items, brands of food items, number of units of food items, quantity of food items, expiration dates, dates that food items were purchased, nutrition information, etc. The system may also leverage the data store to provide recipe recommendations and/or notifications to a user.
Claims16
An electronic pantry device comprising:
- one or more processing units;
- and
- memory storing computer-executable instructions executable by the one or more processing units to perform operations comprising;
- receive, from a first appliance, first sensor information associated with a first food item, the first appliance including a computing device and comprising one of an electronic oven, an electronic blender, an electronic mixer, an electronic blender, an electronic refrigerator, or an electronic food thermometer;
- determine, based on the first sensor information, first food item data associated with the first food item;
- generate, based on the first food item data, a data store that indicates that the first food item is stored in a pantry;
- receive, from a second appliance, second sensor information associated with a second food item, the second appliance including a computing device and comprising one of an electronic oven, an electronic blender, an electronic mixer, an electronic refrigerator, an electronic food thermometer;
- determine, based on the second sensor information, second food item data associated with the second food item;
- update, based on the second food item data, the data store to indicate that the second food item is stored in the pantry,
- the first appliance and the second appliance located external to the pantry.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by an electronic pantry device from an appliance, sensor information associated with a food item, the appliance including a computing device and comprising one of an electronic oven, an electronic blender, an electronic mixer, an electronic blender, an electronic refrigerator, or an electronic food thermometer;
- determining, by the electronic pantry device and based on the sensor information, food item data associated with the food item;
- and
- generating, by the electronic pantry device and based on the food item data, a data store that indicates that the food item is stored in a pantry, the appliance located external to the pantry.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having thereon a set of instructions, which if performed by the computer, cause the computer to at least:
- receive, from an appliance, sensor information associated with a food item, the appliance comprising one of an electronic oven, an electronic blender, an electronic mixer, an electronic blender, an electronic refrigerator, or an electronic food thermometer;
- determine, based on the sensor information, food item data associated with the food item;
- and
- generate, based on the food item data, a data store that indicates that the food item is stored in a pantry, the appliance located external to the pantry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.